Landing aircrafts at Barishal Airport has become a risky endeavour. This is due to the dilapidated condition of its runway as well as other structures, a high-level investigation team of the civil aviation ministry found.

The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.

BNP yesterday raised questions about the government allegedly spending public money to lift US-imposed sanctions.

In August 2011, the government took up a Tk 1,946 crore project to procure 70 Metre Gauge (MG) locomotives to mitigate the growing crisis of rail engines and expanding the services of Bangladesh Railway.

The protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday for bearing all medical expenses of those who were injured in police attack and became sick in hunger strike.

Menopause a turbulent time for women. Hormone levels drop quickly, which causes period to slow to a stop, and some other symptoms set in. But one must consider that menopause is a natural part of life.

A woman in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila has been sued for becoming a voter for the second time using a fake name and age.

Rab on Wednesday detained the driver of a truck  from Chandgaon area of port city, after a van-puller was killed by his truck in the capital’s Bailey Road area on January 24.

A department chairman of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) was allegedly assaulted, as he was trying to enter a teacher recruitment board of his own department yesterday morning.

A first-year mass communication student at Dhaka University was allegedly bullied and mentally tortured by a few seniors in the guest room of Bijoy Ekattor Hall on Wednesday night.

Dhaka is the most polluted city in the world, and air pollution is the main cause for respiratory issues, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.

People of greater Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts regions are familiar with domesticated elephants being used to pull trees down the hills, in circuses and at various social events.

Residents of the capital have inhaled clean air for only 38 days in the last six years, found a study, highlighting the gravity of the air pollution that over two crore people of the city are exposed to every day.

It’s a relatively small window. For four months a year, from mid-November to March, farmers who sell molasses from date juice hit their peak.

Once Nurul Haque used to cultivate different types of crops in his land all around the year.

Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury, director of Bangladeshi architecture firm Urbana, has been announced the winner of the 2021 International Prize for the World’s Best New Building by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his Friendship Hospital project.

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are a growing health risk and matter of concern for Bangladesh, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam went inside some newly built drains yesterday to inspect the construction work.

The High Court yesterday accepted the jail appeals of 17 death-row convicts in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case for hearing.

One of the two buses, which crushed a teenage boy in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on January 20, was being driven by a helper who has no driving licence.